"Controversial" - What do Christians make of this?

Question

This is in the Bible, I recently found so.

"Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed...."(From the NIV Bible, Matthew 16:39)

That is the exact same way that Muslims pray, and Jesus was the prophet before Muhammud, meaning that Jesus observed the prayer rules of Allah.

And Muslims can't touch dogs because when Jesus was recieving an important message from Gabriel, dogs barked through the night.

What do you make of Jesus and his "Islamic" ways. I don't have the source for this next part, but in the end of The Bible [Genesis], it says that there is a Prophet to come, after Jesus.

What do you make of it all? Don't call me a liar, I gave you a source for the first statement, look in your Bibles tonight for yourselves.

Answer 1

Eastern Orthodox Christians did and still do full prostrations like Muslims. There are no pews in many Orthodox (especially Russian) churches. The orginal form of Christianity has always done full prostrations during many of its services, especially during Pascha ("Passover" during the Easter time).

Islam was stolen (copied) from the early Gnostic Christian texts and even refers to Jesus as being born of a virgin, but it won't claim he resurrected from the dead.

Fantastic question, by the way.

Answer 2

First off Matthew 16 only has 28 verses not 39. Secondly Genesis is the beginning of the bible not the end Revelation is the last book of the bible, and the prophet that is spoken of thru out the Old Testament is Jesus.

Answer 3

your right that time He did, but that is the only time it mentions Jesus praying with His face to the ground. Also dude Genisis is the begining of the bible Revalation is the end, and I have no idea what your talking about. I have read it alot and I understand quite a bit of it and I think I would remember another prophet coming oh wait Jesus wasn't a mere prophet He is the Son of God. You might be referring the the Holy Spirit which God gives us as a helper, but that is definately not a prophet, but that is the only thing ever mentioned of coming after Jesus. Also just a tip if your trying to understand about a different religion try reading something other than a list of things that somebody else says is bogus, because its often a misquote or taken out of context. If you really like to learn more about who Jesus really was send me an email.

Answer 4

First, your reference is wrong, your actually talking about Matthew 26:39, not 16:39. And, this doesn't mean that Jesus prayed like that every day (although that wouldn't matter). He is realizing that the Crucifixion plan is about to be put in motion, and in mere moments he is captured. He was probably crying with intense emotion and just fell down on his face, like alot of people do while they are crying.
For the second part, you don't have a source, and I'm pretty sure it is not Biblical.
So, there really is no source for your argument overall, and it is not put together logically.

Answer 5

Well Jesus was a jew and also Islam (as i remember) is based off of judaism as is christianity. Also from what you say it sounds like islam is based off of how jesus prayed and stuff, since islam wasn't around until the 7th century. And the end of the bible isn't genesis it is revelations. And since you didn't give the place in revelations that it says that, then i don't know what to tell you since i thought the bible said there would be no more prophets until Jesus returns.

Answer 6

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She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 7

Your obviously have some anger issues going on so while your reading the bible look up James 4:1-12, Psalm 37:8, Proverbs 15:18 and James1:1-5. We'll all pray for you that Christ will bring someone to help you over come these false ideas.

Answer 8

I think you trying a little too hard find a link here. Lying prostrate before God happened in the old testament (e.g. Deuteronomy 9:18). It was done in extreme circumstances and and wasn't a general rule for prayer. Do some googling on the prophecies of the old testament and their fullfillment in the life of Jesus. It's pretty cut and dry that he's the dude. Remember all sacrifices of unblemished animals for sins in the old testiment? That was a preview of how God would ultimately sacrifice his blameless son for the sins of the world. Plus Jesus has the credentials of being raised from the dead unlike Muhammud.

Answer 9

You got your chapter wrong. It's Matthew 26:39. I think you're taking this verse entirely out of context. You'll have to remember that this happened at Gethsemane just hours before Jesus knew that he was gonna be handed over to the Jews to be crucified. Being a "man", Jesus was displaying his emotions fears and anxiety and perhaps even tiredness as He prayed to his Father. It has nothing to do with the prayer rules of Allah.

Answer 10

Concerning your first statement about Jesus falling to His face in prayer, it is not unusual for anyone to pray in that position no matter what your faith.

Christ does not have "Islamic" ways. The majority of what Mohammad taught was contrary to what Jesus taught.


In Genesis their is no mention of a prophet besides a prophet mentioned after God gave Abimelech a dream and told him that the woman whom he had an affair withs husband was a prophet. (Genesis 20:7)